[josm-dev] How to scale / resize objects ?

[Sebastian Klein]

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 2010/11/20 Olivier Croquette <ml at ocroquette.de>:
> 
>> - modifier for X / Y scaling only
> 
> 
> This is often done in applications with dedicated buttons (x-button,
> y-button) to restrict/allow modification only in this direction or
> even more often with a selection bracket (surrounding rectangle with a
> total of 8 squares to grab and drag at corners and in the middle of
> the selection bracket's sides).
> 
> IMHO those 2 solutions are both user friendly (the bracket-one maybe
> more, you find it in many applications and it could also be used to
> rotate if you drag slightly outside the corners. Usually [shift] is
> used to maintain proportions).

+1 a "selection rectangle" with drag-able corners and sides would be 
very intuitive.

There was an incident where an entire district of Bonn was accidentally 
  rotated and uploaded by an inexperienced user. :)

So it could be separated more clearly by having a dedicated mapmode for 
scale & rotate. The selection mapmode (S) is quite overloaded with 
modifiers already.


Sebastian